The progressive group Justice Democrats, which focuses on primarying safe-seat Democrats in hopes of moving the party to the left, is throwing its weight behind Angela Gonzales-Torres, a challenger to incumbent Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez of California.
In a sign of the party fissures over the war in Gaza that could erupt in the race, Gonzales-Torres bashed Gomez in a new video over his financial support from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC. She also said “I am not taking a dime from AIPAC” and called the conflict in Gaza a “genocide.”
Justice Democrats, founded by alumni of Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign, is mounting…
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